Archived Issue
Original cover page for the March 2013 issue:
Epic Refresh
When I first envisioned moocat.net, it was 1996, and the Web was young. The Internet was an almost-secret club for the technically savvy. The walls of this clubhouse were made out of the ignorance of the masses. The idea that Web content might be inadvertently viewed by anyone whom you didn’t know were infinitesimal.
I proceeded to post content as if it would only be seen by a small group of friends and likeminded Bohemians. No need to censor one’s thoughts or words, so long as the writing was good.
As originally conceived, *moocat.net* ran as a literary magazine from August 2001 through March 2007. As the juggernaut of Web accessibility grew over the 2000s, I put out fewer and less frequent “issues,” and by the time I put out the last, devoted to the (wrongly presumed as cutting-edge) posting of videos on the World Wide Web, moocat.net had been soundly eclipsed by Youtube, WordPress, Flickr, GoDaddy, and, yes, The Facebook. My original “blogs,” sent out as email “e-logs” to a small group of friends as I traveled the world in 1995-96 were now something that Any Schmo could do. The clubhouse had been overrun.
And so, the moocat napped, from sometime in 2013 until now. After 8 long years, I’m finally picking up the pieces that I can still find in my digital attic and tinkering with them to make them work again. If I can figure this out, I will relaunch, with less content from me. The moocat has never been just me but is composed of the wonderful creative work of many contributors, to wit:
| Essayists | Name of Essay | Issue |
|---|---|---|
| Maurice Martin | · Watching the Pentagon Burn · Why I Toast |
Sept 2001 Mar 2005 |
| Lynn Landry | · Tourist for a Day · Stopping on the Street for Coltrane: A Real Latter Day Saint · The Fallopian Chronicles, Part I · The Fallopian Chronicles, Part II · The Fallopian Chronicles, Part III · The Fallopian Chronicles, Part IV · Mama and Her Figs · Maria |
Oct 2001 May 2002 May 2003 Jan 2004 Apr 2004 Aug 2004 Sept 2006 |
| Byron Vassar | · (I Can’t Get No) Catisfaction | Nov 2002 |
| Bruce Fleming | · Roswell My Eye: A UFO Hoax | May 2002 |
| Suz Redfearn | · Psychic Friends · Childhood’s End · Strange Bedfellow · Why I Toast |
Mar 2002 Oct 2002 Mar 2005 Mar 2005 |
| Ho Lin | · Phantom Lover: Ode to Leslie Cheung · The Electric Scooter and the Fall of Dot-Com |
April 2003 April 2004 |
| Kenya Prach | · A Difficult Day | Oct 2003 |
| Ian Enriquez | · Almost Equal | Mar 2004 |
| Kelly Stafford | · Milk Day | Sept 2003 |
| David Grayson | · Why I Toast | Mar 2005 |
| Michael Stone Johnson | · The Origin of Teeth and Bones | Oct 2001 |
| Poets | Name of Poem | Issue |
| Don Gordon | · Arrival | Nov 2001 |
| Julie Allan | · Football’s Birthday · The Edward Gorey Museum |
Nov 2001 Nov 2001 |
| Bruce Fleming | · Memento Mori | Winter 2002 |
| Lynn Landry | · Smoking Haiku | Spring 2002 |
| David Grayson | · Four Haiku · Lacing Your Shoes: Haiku and the Everyday · Inside Scoop · Infinity |
Spring 2002 Spring 2002 Fall 2003 Fall 2006 |
| Rodger Kamenetz | · Allen Ginsberg Forgives Ezra Pound on Behalf of the Jews · Golden Days |
Spring 2002 Summer 2004 |
| Susan Borie Chambers | · Peepshow Kleenex · Island Logic |
Spring 2003 Spring 2003 |
| Rati Saxena | · The Absence of Colours, in the World of Colours | Fall 2003 |
| Li-Young Lee | · I Ask My Mother To Sing · Nativity |
Fall 2003 Fall 2003 |
| Luis Urrea | · Flashpoems: Driving I-10, I-25, I-40, I-70 | Spring 2004 |
| Jim Henley | · Moe Howard Considers the Death of His Brother, Curly | Summer 2004 |
| Keith Ekiss | · Americat | Summer 2004 |
| Kim Cochran | · Grandma Said · Sand Shark |
Winter 2005 Winter 2005 |
| Michelle Daugherty | · Broken Water | Winter 2005 |
| Artists | Name of Piece | Issue |
| Sylvester Hustito (a.k.a. Sobe) | · Zuni Katchinas | Winter 2001 |
| Melissa Stander | · Hector | Summer 2002 |
| Robin Liu | · Drawings | Fall 2003 |
| John Freeman | · Photographs · Photography: Taiwan Food Vendors |
Fall 2003 Summer 2004 |
| Carolyn Coco | · Death of the Bayou | Winter 2005 |
| John Guillory | · Portraits | Fall 2006 |
| Mohamed Tahdaini | · Abstract Works | Fall 2006 |
| Humorists | Name of Piece | Issue |
| Maurice Martin (and Moocat le Meaux) | · Cajuns on Fire · Krawkawkaw Gives a Little · The Louisiana Cajuns · The Little X-mas That Wasn’t |
Spring 2003 Spring 2003 Spring 2003 Fall 2003 |
| Max Burbank | · Papa Loves Mambo | Winter 2005 |
| Videographers | Name of Piece | Issue |
| Rob Parrish | · Next to Heaven | Spring 2007 |
| Phillip Salzman | · Mainland Murmurs | Spring 2007 |